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'''Hubbardston''' is a town in [[Worcester County, Massachusetts|Worcester County]], [[Massachusetts]], United States. As of the [[2020 United States census|2020 U.S. census]], the town population was 4,328.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0600000US2502731435|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2021-11-November 12, 2021|title=Census - Geography Profile: Hubbardston town, Worcester County, Massachusetts}}</ref> It is situated 18 miles north of [[Worcester, Massachusetts|Worcester]] and 53 miles west of [[Boston]]; it is distinguished in Massachusetts by being unusually high, at 1015 feet above sea level.

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Hubbardston, the "Northeast Quarter" of [[Rutland, Massachusetts|Rutland]], was incorporated as a separate district in 1767 and named for Thomas Hubbard (1702–1773), Commissary General of the Province of Massachusetts and Treasurer of Harvard College.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hubbard, Thomas|url=http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=hua24010|access-date= 7 February 7, 2014}}</ref> It is reported in local history that in view of the honor of giving his name to the town, Hubbard promised to provide the glass for the windows of the first [[meeting house]] built in town. To make his liberality more conspicuous, the people planned for extra windows, but when Hubbard died in 1773, his estate was so complicated that the town of Hubbardston received nothing and was obliged to glaze the windows at its own expense.<ref name=Stowe>

|access-date = 2008-08-August 20, 2008}}</ref> In 1786, eighty men from the town marched to [[Worcester, Massachusetts|Worcester]] under Wheeler's command and, joining hundreds of other farmers, took control of the courthouse to protest the widespread foreclosures and seizures of property by creditors that occurred during the cash-poor 18th century.<ref name="Hubb"/><ref name="histcom">{{cite web

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Hubbardston furnished 164 men during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]. 44Forty-four were killed or died of illness.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stowe |first1=John |title=History of the Town of Hubbardston, Worcester County, Mass: From the Time Its Territory was Purchased of the Indiana in 1686, to the Present |date=1881 |publisher=The Committee |location=Worcester County, Massachusetts |page=144 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKQQwG8zEzMC&q=hubbardston+furnished+%22civil+war%22&pg=PR16 |access-date=20 June 20, 2020}}</ref>

Hubbardston is home to the invention of the first backhoe swing frame, developed in July 1947 by Vaino J. Holopainen (pronounced "Waino") and Roy E. Handy, Jr., (thus the company name "Wain-Roy") and assigned to Wain-Roy Corporation of Hubbardston, MA. In July 1948, patent # 2,698,697 was filed by Vaino J. Holopainen.

As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2000, there were 3,909 people, 1,308 households, and 1,071 families residing in the town. The population density was {{convert|95.3|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 1,360 housing units at an average density of {{convert|33.1|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the town was 98.39% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 0.15% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.08% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.49% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.28% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 0.61% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 1.33% of the population.

* [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLorean_time_machine[DeLorean time machine#Cars_used_in_filming |DeLorean Time Machine]]; currently being displayed in Hubbardston